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quoting in autoconf
From: |
Josef Vukovic |
Subject: |
quoting in autoconf |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:09:35 +0100 |
Hello,
I am reading the autoconf[1] documentation and come to the topic,
3.1.2 The autoconf language where it says " Arguments should
be enclosed within the m4 quote characters ‘[’ and ‘]’..." but m4
uses the '`' and ''' as quoting characters. Also defining a Macro
with:
define([stdio_h], [HAVE_STDIO_H])dnl
don't work as expected with defining it like this:
define(`stdio_h', `HAVE_STDIO_H')dnl
So I'm know somewhat confused could someone be so friendly
to explain the issue? Is there a changequote applied during the
processing of configure.ac wiht autoconf? If so isn't the manual
somewhat ambigious?
[1]
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#autoscan-Invocation
cheers
Josef Vukovic
Holunderweg 6
89143 Blaubeuren
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Josef Vukovic <=